runvnc/tersenet
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A new type of JavaScript-free light-weight fast browser built on rst and web assembly. Does not actually exist.
28 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 2 stories, 26 comments · first 2019-07-27 · latest 2026-06-10
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https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2026-06-10 · in I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet -
https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2026-04-30 · in Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API -
…the prompt API needs to be different? And if so can you give one sentence on how it should change? https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet If you glance at that then you may see that I am for the idea of leaner alternatives to the current web…
comment by ilaksh · 2026-04-30 · in Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API -
https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2025-07-19 · in A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022) -
…they should not necessarily be combined along with information browsing and search into one thing. https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2025-07-16 · in Six Years of Gemini -
https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2025-02-28 · in WASM Wayland Web (WWW) -
Here's my idea https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2024-10-15 · in Web Browser Engineering (2021) -
…the demo more interesting and inserted externally? I would like to combine something like this with https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet or some of those ideas.
comment by ilaksh · 2024-02-03 · in Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library -
Here's an idea I had that is a bit related https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet Although I may never have time to actually work on it. Especially since it will be a complete waste of time unless I can get a huge number of people to adopt it.
comment by ilaksh · 2023-10-23 · in Software disenchantment -
…dominance, that not even Microsoft could do it. Here is my somewhat related pet project: Tersenet. https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet It's just a concept, virtually no implementation. But I deliberately picked a set of requirements that…
comment by ilaksh · 2023-09-22 · in I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser -
…the door open. Here are a couple of other alternative ideas for the web: https://freenet.org/ https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet (an idea, not implemented)
comment by ilaksh · 2023-08-08 · in Bye, Gemini -
…make a new version of this http://vintagesimulator.com with VR support. Or actually build this https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet What I have been thinking about for a few years is a SaaS that takes a video stream and in real-time outputs…
comment by ilaksh · 2022-11-28 · in Ask HN: If money was no object what software would you create? -
Reminds me of some related ideas I had: https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2022-11-10 · in We should have Markdown-rendered websites -
https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2022-07-31 · in Challenges in building a decentralized web -
https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2022-05-17 · in Surfing the Gopherspace -
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet (note that Gemini is a real system, mine is just an idea)
comment by ilaksh · 2022-05-02 · in The appeal of using plain HTML pages (2019) -
…become a new type of web browser? Could you take a look at my comment in this thread and also at https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet I have not totally updated that but my current thinking is that we really want to finish deconstructing the…
comment by ilaksh · 2022-04-26 · in Show HN: We launched a new web browser -
https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2022-04-26 · in Show HN: We launched a new web browser -
…a flexible pluggable and granularly permissioned device driver system. Extended media browsers. https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2022-04-26 · in Show HN: We launched a new web browser -
We should be working on an alternative paradigm. https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet
comment by ilaksh · 2022-04-24 · in Ask HN: How do you feel about Chrome becoming a browser monopoly? -
…by making protocols simple enough for the average programmer or small team to implement them. https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet -- still just some ideas, not an actual prototype.
comment by ilaksh · 2022-04-18 · in Subvert network effects and encourage adversarial interoperability -
If anyone is interested I have an idea along these lines under runvnc/noscriptweb on GitHub. https://github.com/runvnc/noscriptweb Its probably going to stay as just an idea because other projects have priority.
comment by ilaksh · 2020-07-04 · in A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web -
I have an idea about an alternative web browse/protocol that is faster. https://github.com/runvnc/noscriptweb . .. although don't have time to code it. Gemini could be pretty fast if they did not insist on TLS and new connections all the…
comment by ilaksh · 2020-07-01 · in Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017) -
…on TLS and closing connections totally defeats the purpose for me. I also came up with this concept https://github.com/runvnc/noscriptweb which I may never actually code because of time constraints.
comment by ilaksh · 2020-06-24 · in Text-Only Websites -
Please see my comment above. https://github.com/runvnc/noscriptweb That GitHub project is just an idea and I am probably never going to actually code it because I have another side project. But I think the spec might be interesting to…
comment by ilaksh · 2020-06-13 · in Flow browser passes the Acid tests -
…above could actually be feasibly implemented by multiple groups and would solve performance issues. https://github.com/runvnc/noscriptweb
comment by ilaksh · 2020-06-13 · in Flow browser passes the Acid tests